UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL: 'SEEDS OF FIRE' HAS "EXPLOSIVE
IMPLICATIONS"

United Press International has alerted the world's media that
Seeds of Fire - already a runaway Internet bestseller - has
explosive implications for U.S. relations with Israel.

"Seeds of Fire is likely to doom new Israeli efforts to free spy
Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence officer
serving a life sentence for betraying his country," UPI said
Monday, January 28, in a major wire-service story.

Written by award-winning former foreign correspondent Gordon
Thomas, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on
America ($25.95, Dandelion Books) is available, at
www.dandelionbooks.com.

Said UPI: "Former (and probably next) Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, scheduled to be in Washington this weekend
for a Conservative conference, will be lobbying hard for Pollard
and wants to take up the matter in person with President
Bush."

Seeds of Fire contains the full, untold story of the role played
by Pollard in the biggest-ever theft of U.S. defense secrets.
(See attached backgrounder.)

UPI states that, as a result of the startling evidence published
in Seeds of Fire, it is now "unlikely" that Pollard will be
freed.

It is not only UPI that has recognized the importance of Seeds
of Fire.

Hours after it was published, the CIA confirmed that key
documents in the book - secret briefing papers by the agency on
the threat China poses - were accurate.

The CIA then published the secret documents already revealed in
Seeds of Fire.

But Seeds of Fire contains many more documents that have yet to
be published.

UPI praises Thomas as the author of the acclaimed history of the
Mossad - Gideon's Spies. Seeds of Fire is also the result of
careful research leading to "explosive" implications and
conclusions.

BACKGROUND TO THE POLLARD CASE IN SEEDS OF FIRE

Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack
on America reveals why Pollard was sentenced to die in prison
after he had been found guilty of being the greatest traitor in
the history of the United States.

Seeds of Fire shows how, compared to Pollard, the
damage done to U.S. security by others spying against the U.S.
pales in significance.

Pollard was a civilian senior analyst in the most
secret Field Operational Intelligence office in Suitland,
Maryland. The post required top security clearance because
Pollard had access to highly classified files in the entire U.S.
intelligence community.

Seeds of Fire documents how a powerful lobby within
the United States has lobbied to have Pollard freed. It names
the lobbyists. They are headed by Harvard Law School Professor,
Alan M. Dershowitz, once Pollard's attorney.

Seeds of Fire quotes the attorney thus: "There is
nothing in Pollard's conviction to suggest that he had
compromised the nation's intelligence-gathering capabilities or
betrayed worldwide intelligence data."

Backed by such powerful sources, Israel has now begun
a new campaign to persuade the Bush Administration to set
Pollard free.

But CIA Director, George Tenet, as Seeds of Fire
reveals, is leading the opposition to such a move.

Tenet is not the only one who has joined in the
battle over Pollard's future. Four retired U.S. admirals, one
who had served as a director of U.S. Naval Intelligence, have
circulated a paper within the Washington intelligence community
that bluntly states Pollard's release would not only be
"irresponsible to the highest degree, but also a victory for the
clever public relations campaign waged for the worst traitor
this country has had."

So far such trenchant views have remained within the
intelligence community, but a number of senior members of the
CIA, FBI and other agencies who were involved in assessing the
damage Pollard did, have begun to say they will go public on
what they know the extent of that damage to be.

Though reluctant to be named "for the moment," one
FBI agent told Gordon Thomas: "Pollard stole every worthwhile
intelligence secret we had. We are still trying to recover from
what he did. We have had to withdraw dozens of agents in place
in the former Soviet Union, in the Middle East, South Africa and
friendly nations like Britain, France and Germany. The American
public just don't know the full extent of what he did."

Ironically, Pollard in his youth had made no secret
of his support for Israel. The youngest son of an award-winning
microbiologist, his family and friends have described his near
obsession with "the power of Mossad." At Stanford University he
said he was "waiting for the day when Israel will call upon me."
Nobody took him seriously; many thought he was a fantasist. For
that reason the CIA rejected his job application, dismissing him
as a "blabbermouth."

But the agency also saw that he had an extraordinary
gift as an analyst. This talent allowed Naval Intelligence to
overlook his other faults.

His former chief, David Muller, admitted "despite his
stories about his visits to Israel when he claimed to have met
with Mossad, he was a genius when it came to breaking down
complex data. He was a one-off in every sense of the word.
With hindsight we all should have listened to the alarm bells
ringing. Pollard had a drug habit. He had huge debts. He
lived well above his salary. In every sense he was a prime
target for a foreign intelligence service to recruit."

No other U.S. spy in modern intelligence has
generated such controversy as Jonathan Pollard. Now forty-seven
years of age and incarcerated in a maximum security jail
supposedly for the rest of his life, no one publicly still knows
the full extent of the damage he did after he was recruited in
November 1984 to spy for Israel.

The man who did the recruiting was Rafi Eitan,
Mossad's legendary spymaster who captured Adolf Eichmann.
Pollard was to be an even greater triumph for Eitan and
Israel.

Eitan is one of the few who knows the full extent of the
top-secret materials Pollard passed over. But within the Israeli
intelligence community it is accepted that Pollard also provided
a clear picture of U.S. intelligence gathering methods in the
Middle East.

For over eleven months Pollard had raped U.S.
intelligence. His trial was told, "Over 360 cubic feet of paper
was transmitted to Israel."

Yitzhak Shamir, then Israeli's prime minister, had
personally approved the recruiting of Pollard.

Pollard was arrested on November 21, 1986, outside
the Israeli embassy in Washington. He elected to plea-bargain
rather than face a full trial. The U.S. government agreed with
alacrity: no state secrets would have to be revealed, especially
about the extent of Israeli espionage.

After the plea bargain, the Justice Department
supplied the court with a sworn declaration signed by Caspar W.
Weinberger, the Secretary of Defence, which detailed by
categories some of the intelligence systems that had been
compromised.

In prison Pollard divorced his first wife, Anne (who
had been sentenced to five years imprisonment for being his
accomplice) and converted to Orthodox Judaism. In 1994 he
married, in prison, a Toronto schoolteacher named Elaine Zeitz.
Esther Pollard, as she was from then on known, became the
spearhead of the campaign to have her husband freed. Now she
has been enjoined by Benyamin Netanyahu.

"Much of what he knows is still in his head. And
some of what he stole is still in use by us," Seeds of Fire
reveals. "The reason the key was thrown away to his cell is
because until he died he would be useful to Israel. They would
just have to show him something and he would know how to
extrapolate from it. A man like that doesn't lose his touch
because he is locked away.

Yet the lobbyists are now arguing that Pollard has to
be seen within the context of the "big picture" in the Middle
East, says Gordon Thomas.

A former FBI officer who had been involved in
tracking Pollard told the author he would have no objection to a
deal over Pollard "providing Israel listed everything Pollard
had stolen and what they have done with the materials in terms
of all their friends in Beijing."

He conceded that such a hope was forlorn. Far more
realistic he thought, was that one day soon Jonathan Pollard
might yet get to use the Israeli passport that spymaster Rafi
Eitan had provided him.
Certainly the old spymaster is more than ready to
welcome Pollard to Israel. "It would be really nice to see
Jonathan again and discuss old times," Eitan has told Gordon
Thomas.

The full untold story of Pollard, Eitan and Israel's secret
operations in the United States are documented in Seeds of Fire:
China and the Story Behind the Attack on America, by Gordon
Thomas, ISBN 1893302547, Dandelion Books; Paperback; 524 pages;
large number of official documents; $25.95.

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